Connecticut Post – Feb 21, 2013

Navy veteran Kelli Grese overdosed on an antipsychotic medication called Seroquel on Veterans Day in 2010. The medication was part of a cocktail of drugs that doctors at the Hampton hospital had prescribed for her.

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A Virginia Beach woman and the federal government have agreed to settle a malpractice lawsuit against the  Hampton Veterans Administration Medical Centerstemming from her twin sister’s suicide.

Darla Grese’s lawyer, Bob Haddad, tells  The Virginian-Pilot (http://bit.ly/XksgN2 ) that the federal government will pay his client $100,000, if a judge approves the settlement.

In the settlement, Haddad says the government doesn’t take responsibility for or acknowledge liability for the death of Grese’s sister, Navy veteran Kelli Grese.

Kelli Grese overdosed on an antipsychotic medication called Seroquel on Veterans Day in 2010. The medication was part of a cocktail of drugs that doctors at the Hampton hospital had prescribed for her.

The lawsuit had sought $5 million in damages.

Also read, Two Soldiers Prescribed 54 Drugs: Military Mental Health“Treatment” Becomes Frankenpharmacy

and Psychiatric Drugs and War: A Suicide Mission